It won't work because MySQL doesn't count null values. Teddy, Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Kiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:18 AM Subject: Re: Counting null values Hi Octavian, Try this: select FieldName, count(*) from TableName group by FieldName Bye, Danny At 16:39 2003.02.08._+0200, you wrote: >Hi all, > >I have a table where I have something like this: > >| abc | >| abc | >| xxx | >| null | >| null | >| null | > >I want to count these lines to give the result 5, meaning a distinct count >for values which are not null, and counting all the null values. > >This means 1 for "abc", one for "xxx", and 3 for null values. > >Can you tell me what sql query should I use for counting this? > >Thank you. > > >Teddy, >Teddy's Center: http://teddy.fcc.ro/ >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Before posting, please check: > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > >To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php